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McVey invites ridicule as she dismisses her own PIP figures

30/01/2013 – 2:36 pm

A minister has refused to admit that her government has tightened eligibility for support for people with the highest mobility needs, even though her own department’s figures prove that it has.
Esther McVey, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions committee for the first time since her ministerial [...]

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Government holds out hope for just nine Remploy factories

22/07/2012 – 9:00 am

Just nine of the 36 sheltered Remploy factories that were set to be shut in the first wave of a government closure programme could be kept open under new ownership, a minister has announced.
Maria Miller, the Conservative minister for disabled people, told MPs this week that the government had received 65 “proposals” to take Remploy [...]

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